Invariants of some abelian p-groups in characteristic p Mara D. Neusel Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 1921-1931. Abstract. An explicit description of the ring of polynomial invariants of cyclic groups of order $p^s$ with fixed point set of codimension 2, or with covariants of codimension 2, over a field of characteristic $p$ is given. It transpires that these rings are complete intersections. A slight generalization for some abelian p-groups is also derived, which leads to a result about arbitrary groups with p-Sylow subgroup of this type.